Video: The National: "Terrible Love"

Backstage goofing off in the video for the alternate version of the High Violet track

The National cut something of a dour, imposing, aristocratic figure much of the time, but their new video for the string-soaked alternate version of "Terrible Love" makes a case for the band's members as charming goofballs.

In director Tom Berninger's clip, filmed during the band's marathon summer tour, we see some footage of the band's fiery live show, but most of the video finds them doing regular-dude stuff: Swimming, comic book shopping, air-humping, throwing shit at each other, bowling (badly). Watch the video below.

4AD will release this version of the High Violet track as a violet vinyl 7" single on November 22. Both the song and its B-side, "You Were a Kindness", also appear on the expanded edition of High Violet, which comes out the same day.